IFLA: The “Stronk, Like Bull” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 5

The new feature in the sky (and lasting until September) is Saturn going into retrograde motion. This makes Saturn difficult to read confidently, as it now causes both beginnings and very, very bad endings. It also take part in our first alignment: Mars-Sol-Saturn (retrograde) = a war breaks out this week. Sorry about that. The second one is much better, we get the Earth aligning with the moon and the sun which signals general benevolence. It’s not ideal, being the sort that leads to a new moon, but I’ll take it. Indeed, this particular new moon shows higher than usual potential for auspicious beginnings, so if you were going to start a business or ask out that hottie, this is as good a time as can be reasonably expected.

Staying on the subject of Saturn (retrograde) it’s still loafing around in Capricorn. Now Capricorn is the sign of wisdom, tempermentality, and fine leather goods. For the past far too many weeks, Saturn has been inhibiting our thinking, making it more ponderous than it should be. Now that it has gone retrograde, we should experience extremes of judgment, both flashes of insight and extremely stupid decisions. Good luck telling the difference. With the new moon in Taurus there is great potential — the new moon is the seed, a thing unrealized, the sign of beginning. But the beginning of what exactly? Unfortunately in this case, the facing sign is “the hidden threat.” Find it, catch it, kill it. Too bad about that whole Saturn retrograde in Capricorn when it comes to correctly identifying what the threat is. Whether it’s spring or because Venus and Mercury are in the sign of the Goat, you will feel… inclinations this week.

Indeed, this particular new moon shows higher than usual potential for auspicious beginnings, so if you were going to start a business or ask out that hottie, this is as good a time as can be reasonably expected.

Holy shit, where does my wife find these horrid TV choices? Is that Rod Stewart trying to sing CCR’s Rain? This guy is still alive? The last time I saw him on the TV, I’m pretty sure he was wearing an adult diaper under his polyester leisure suit from the 60s. He’s older than Mick Jagger, for crikey sake. You’ll fall off the stage and break a hip, Rod.

As I wrote yesterday, I don’t see the point in having constantly phone home to keep checking if extensions are signed. They are authenticated on install. It’s just stupid to have an application being dependent on some website running properly.

It needs to check the chain of trust for revocations, which I imagine is happening here; I’m guessing they’re treating the expired cert in the same fashion as a revoked cert (they’re both invalid), but I haven’t really dug into it.

It’s important – if a cert was compromised, you want to mark it as such and get it untrusted as soon as possible – _especially_ if it’s an intermediate signing cert; otherwise the bad guys can just start signing things (like extensions) that do all any number of terrible things but would be as trusted as any other extension.

Count Potato
on May 5, 2019 at 3:06 pm

FF phones home anyway (eg. to check for updates) so then it could be notified if a cert was compromised, rather than assume they are bad unless told otherwise.

Akira
on May 5, 2019 at 12:38 pm

Dear Abby/Zardoz:

What do you think a person’s obligations are as far as travelling for family events that they’re invited to? Suppose this is a person who has a job with a massive workload where time off is not easy to get, and this person also is not awash in cash to spend on plane tickets and hotel rooms in some of the most expensive places in the world such as California and NYC.

Is this person being an inconsiderate dickhead if they decline to attend, or should the other family members understand that not everyone has the time and money to travel all the time?

I’d say it kind of depends on the event. Your parents 50th anniversary, you should go. Your brother’s third wedding, you should be able to skip. Once in a generation family gathering, go. Once a year family gathering, skip.

I just started using Brave on my Android. So far, so good. Wife downloaded it to her iPhone. She can use but can’t change default from Safari. That’s interesting to me considering all the money Microsoft was fined over IE.

Haven’t seen any Glibfit articles lately. I’ve had been stuck at 172 lbs. for about a month now. Was, until this morning I finally weighed in at 170 lbs. It’s only 2 lbs, but that’s 60 lbs. total weight loss from a year ago. And most of the loss has been since the first of the year. I’m only 5’8″, so 230 was really obese. I did 5.4 miles this morning walk/jog/run, 70 minutes. Yeah, probably still a little slow, but I’m getting there. Also have reduced my lower back discomfort over the last few days after talking to someone I know who has been running for years. Turns out someone here who said I might be impacting a little on my heels, may have been right. No lower back pain at all right now after at least 1.5 miles running of the 5.4 total. I want to add weights, but for now, the aerobic/weight loss/heart health side of things have been most important to me after having heart problems because of my long term fat couch tater lifestyle. It must be working because I’m completely symptom free now. EKG was normal. Haven’t done another stress test, but likely I can pass that with no problems. Party on Glibfit!

Awesome job, Hyp! Physical fitness is one of the most rewarding things you can do for yourself.

I’ll probably go out for a run today. It’s 66°, a little breezy, and not a cloud in sight. PERFECT.

I just have to wait for my bowels to empty so that I can go all 5 miles without having to make a pit stop. Sometimes there’s no bathroom out there, and nervously dooking in the forest while frantically looking out for witnesses is no fun (hey, I do what I have to do!!)

Thanks! Like Akira said, it’s most rewarding when you start getting physically fit. I think it was the Bible where I read this quote ‘The life is in the blood’. It’s true, you have to get it moving. I’m driving my wife a little crazy because of my much higher energy. I just have to get her up and moving also. She did injure her knee about a year ago and we’re still working on getting that back to normal.

Thanks, DEG. She’s going to see her ortho doc in Brazil next week. I’m shipping her off down there in a few days. I guess they have a new treatment that’s supposed to be far superior to the cortisone/coricosteroid shots she’s been getting here to treat it. They don’t have to contend with the FDA down there, so sometimes they’ll get new treatments before they’ll get approved here.

Congratulations. I ran my first mile (although I did quite a bit of hiking before that) on July 22nd 2009. I was 46.

I only ran because a friend was having a two mile fun run and I wanted to run a little at home before attempting that. I found out that I liked running, but it was sufficiently taxing that I’d count down the driveways while running around the block (3/4 of a mile for one loop), knowing that there were five driveways after my house where I’d be running (slightly) uphill, then I’d turn and run downhill.

Look, you really should not be giving mules tequila. It’s animal abuse! And trying to make it after getting it drunk!? Sick-O perv! Also, ‘Tijuana Donkey’? Cultural appropriation! Guilty, guilty! Sinner! Burn this witch!

Miley Cyrus deciding she’s ‘queer’ is as convincing as me deciding my dog is a goldfish

Hearing straight, woke young women who have had a drunken fumble with another woman at a party describe themselves as ‘lesbian’ or ‘gender queer’ insults me. Their motivation may be a desire to get themselves on one of the many lists of top 100 in the LGBTQQIA+ world, or perhaps because they will appear more interesting. What I do know is that such women almost always end up married to men and having kids, and living a conventional life. Occasionally they will dye their fringe orange, put on a slogan T-shirt, and join a rainbow coalition march in Brighton. But what they won’t do is suffer for their sexuality.

Then there is the latest craze of men deciding they are lesbians, because they claim to be women, such as Alex Drummond, who has retained not only his bushy beard but also his meat and two veg.

Real lesbians commit to the role. There is no running back into the arms of Nigel for us. If the fake lesbians want an authentic experience, perhaps they could persuade their parents to reject them, or have their female friends shy away from a hug as though they are being perved upon?

It is no fun being beaten up in the street for being lesbian or gay. But it is an amazing feeling to know that you have fought for the liberation of younger lesbians who, in the main, won’t ever face the horrors that my friends and I did when we came out. It is an insult to have all and sundry on a list that used to be about same-sex attracted people who formed an alliance in order to fight prejudice and bigotry. To all you attention-seeking narcissists desperate to be included: you are all special, but you are very probably as straight as a die. Get over it.”

“our good pal julie “straight people choose to be straight” bindel back at it again completely erasing the concept of bisexual people and being mad that gay & lesbians don’t have it as hard as they used to.”

I wonder whether non-activist gays who just want to be gay and don’t want to be defined as gay, at least/especially not the way activists define it, miss the closet or the taboo. You’re accepted now. Nobody but a dwindling few retrograde conservatives have a bad word to say about you, and even conservatives don’t hate you for being a faggot the way it used to be, they just don’t want religious people compelled to serve as your wedding officiants. Straight is still the vanilla of sexual orientations, but gay is like a Neapolitan or whatever, it’s not vanilla but it’s not much more exciting.

Sealtest New York Vanilla was a staple in our freezer when I was a kid in Illinois. Delicious with a strong vanilla flavor. I haven’t seen it in years, but I moved to California in 1985, so it may have just been a regional thing.

Truthfully if made me put away my homemade ice cream maker decades ago even though the ice cream maker also made cherished childhood memories of we grandkids having to take turns sitting on the bucket full of ice while mammaw turned the crank.

Good times.

Akira
on May 5, 2019 at 4:00 pm

Straight is still the vanilla of sexual orientations, but gay is like a Neapolitan or whatever, it’s not vanilla but it’s not much more exciting.

Perhaps that explains some of this upsurge in attention to transgenderism, genderfluidity, etc.

“I recall one such moment. I had met my lezzer friend Bridget in a pub after work, and we were deep in conversation when the inevitable happened. ‘What are two beautiful ladies doing in here on their own?’ slurred Barry, pint in hand and attempting to sit beside us. I pointed out we were not ‘on our own’ on account that we were together, and politely asked him to leave us alone. Soon, we went from ‘beautiful ladies’ to ‘carpet-munching ugly dykes’. I pointed out that if he was the alternative, did he blame us? Every woman in that bar burst out laughing, with several telling me how they wished they could give up men and live happily ever after. One asked me: ‘Are you a lesbian because you never found the right man?’ I replied that if finding the right man was a prerequisite of heterosexuality, we would soon be extinct.”

If it’s OK to roll back the Second Amendment because of “gun deaths”, what exactly is the complaint if someone proposes a Muslim registry because of terrorism? I mean, 9/11 killed more people than all American mass shootings combined, so what’s the problem?

Speaking of: I would never even consider being a public school teacher, but if I were, probably the first thing I would teach would be “If you get viscerally angry about hearing an opposing viewpoint/argument, you are functioning at the level of a 4 year-old. You are not using the superior reasoning and mental faculties that are your birthright.”

Then I would bombard them with counterpoints to every prog indoctrination point they’ve been force-fed.

“The Second Amendment is only a limitation on the federal government. States may regulate their militias however they wish – including limiting firearms to those who are on duty police or national guard personnel.”

Let’s say an individual convicted of murder gets 25 to life. He serves 30ish years and is released. He immediately goes out and slaughters an elementary schooler with a machete. Clearly, we need common sense Cruel and Unusual Punishment control because if we had flayed this guy alive in the public square, he wouldn’t have been able to kill that poor kid.

“Today is Karl Marx’s birthday. He is chiefly famous for complaining to Engels in 1867 that he had a huge boil on his penis, and for respectfully addressing Engels’ hedgehog as ‘Right Honourable Hedgehog’.”

“The bourgeoisie…,draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls… {It has]..rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.”

Only a special kind of idiot could draw this (correct) conclusion and then somehow assign a negative value to it.

Beautiful day of chainsawing and no blood despite fucking up the notch on one of the trees, followed by spreading some bark dust. Chicken going the grill soon. Lime and tonic because the wifey wants to pickup ice cream after dinner.